A review on wireless sensor network for water pipeline monitoring applications

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained a lot of attention from researchers both from academia and industry during the past decade. This key technology enables a wide range of potential applications and services including monitoring of physical environments, enhanced industrial control, surveillance, remote health care and logistics. Real-time monitoring of water pipeline network is one such application where WSN plays significant role. The issue of water is considered to be one of the largest and most serious challenges. It is expected to aggravate over time, given the scarcity of available traditional water resources and the massive costs of providing fresh potable water from non-traditional sources such as desalination plants. Therefore, a robust and reliable WSN technique is required to monitor leaks, bursts and other anomalies in the water pipeline systems. This paper presents a consolidated review on WSN for water pipeline monitoring applications.